Eye Rolling

 

13th Sept 2025 vs 17th Sept 2025

In my previous post I showed the photo to left of the green rabbit sculpture, and mentioned that "one of its pupils moves slowly round and round in a circle (like a clock), making its expression look different from one day to the next". I got some comments and questions on that, so when I passed it again today, I snapped another photo to show you. 

The eye rotates so slowly that you don't see the movement while standing looking at it. But if you walk by the sculpture again after a day or two, you will see that it has changed.

The sculpture's offcial title is Mate Hunting. It was created by artist Marianne Lindberg de Geer and has been standing in the park in our city centre (in Borås, Sweden) since 2008. Originally it was in a different location in the park, but was moved to where it is now in 2024. It has been sabotaged a few times over the years, and the rotating eye was recently repaired once again. 

Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream features the line "The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven" [Google AI]